Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-27
KANSAS NEWS.

habltants IN that l1Stle city.
The Knights Templar will give a
swell ball at Wichita on Feb. 20.
1t is reported from Ottawa that Pro-
fessor r. T. Powell has decamped.
More apples are being shipped from
Parson this season than ever-before.
A paper of that CITY SAYS: Car
loads of beer arrive in Topeka every
day.
The ice on the river at Lawrence
was sixteen inches thick, the thictest
for years.
Washington, Washington county,
has decided to put in a system of
electric light.
The Wichita Eagle figures out 81
900, 900 worth of buildings to be built
in 1887 in Wichita.
The Monitor remaks that it requires
no prophetic eve to see glorious fu-
ture for Fort Scott.
Wichita is declared to be the best
known town in Kansas because it is
the best advertised.
Amos Durbin, who lives three miles
northwest of Mound City, Lyon coun-
ty, owns mad stone.
The military order of the LOYAL
Legion of the State of Kansas will
meetin Topeka, Feb. 8.
The total amount of county, town
ship and city bonds 80 far voted in
Kansas amounts to so, ,293,00
Enough railroad companies were
chaJtered in Kansas last year to build
$4,000 miles of road.
Wichita has. an ice factory nearing
complete n, which Will manufacture
ice in large qualities next summer.
The Mound Valley Ne,os has been
removed Co Edna and another paper
will be established in Mound Valley.
The Medicine lodge hder says the
people OF Barber county propose to cul !
tivate the Russian sanh0wers for fuel. |
The Marysviile Republican says:
One-seyenth of the county superin-
tendents of schools in Kansas are wo-
G2len.
The press of the state seems to he in
favor of the death penalty being insti- |
tuted in Kansas for the benefit Of mur-
derefs.
A paper says: Kansas is a great
state for good butter. and there seems !
to be plenty of this article in Sumner
county.
An Emporia paper says: The pros
pect fer building boom the coming
spring and summer is said to be quite
favorable.
There are at the present time thirty
five different church organization il.
the consolidated city of Kansas City,
Kansas.
The citizens of Oswego Kas., raised |
$1,000 in the first half. day, for the
purpose of sinking a shaft in the search |
of gas and coal.
The meeting of the annual confer
ence of the NJ. E. church, for the year
1887, will he held at junction City,
Assem- bling March 15.
The railroad from Newton to Nc
Pherson is completed and trains are
running, but the mail is still carried |
by the old-fashioned coach.
The Globe says the cost of securing
"a divorce in Atchison is from SIS up.
A coupleewas divorced Yesterday who
had lived together but five weeks.
The State Journal says Topeka has
fair prospects of getting large pack
ing house next year. The packing
house at Atchison employs 900 men.
The Parson Eclipse says: If no
more freezing weather should come
this section viii doubtless raise a peach
crop, which would be the first for sew
eral years.
A Kansas paper says: The Rock
Island ,mpany has secured lease of
that part of the Kansas Pacific between |
Kansas City anu Topeka for twenty
five years.
Comanche county has eleven news
papers. All the Inhabitants in the |
county put togather would scarcely |
make town large enough to decently
support two.
The largest railroad locomotive ever
in the state of Kansas passed west over
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe re-
Gently en- route for the mountain di-
vision of the Colorado Midland rail.
road.
The eofn producing counties of Kan
sas stand In the following order: |
-Ievell 4513 900. ReDubiic 160 |